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Eric Rizzo has joined the Technology PMC. Anybody who has been paying attention will no-doubt recognise Eric’s name. He was the winner of the “Top Newcomer Evangelist” award at last year’s EclipseCon. If you spend any time in the Eclipse newsgroups, you’ve likely come across his name. He is very...

As many know, Adobe is a great supporter of Eclipse by the fact that their FlexBuilder product and soon to come Thermo product are built on Eclipse. Having them use Eclipse for these products is a great endorsement of Eclipse as a universal tool platform. Therefore, it is great to...

Parce que j’en ai marre de galérer à chaque fois que je veux retrouver les URLs des entrepôts p2 d’Eclipse 3.4, ou des builds d’intégration de la 3.5, les voici… Update Site Update Site URL Integration builds toward 3.5 http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.5-I-builds Nightly builds toward 3.5 http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.5-N-builds 3.5 milestones http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.5milestones Maintenance builds...

SAP has previously stated that their next generation of NetWeaver was going to be based on OSGi. Fredrik Alstroemer from SAP Java Server developer team has written about their reasoning and in particular SAP’s choise of using Equinox as their OSGi runtime. Some key takeaways: – SAP Netweaver already has...

Over the last 12 months, Eclipse has gained a lot of traction in the mobile industry but a lot of the activity is based on technology slices of mobile development. That is why it is great to see Motorola and Nokia proposing a solution to define a common Mobile Application...

The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme has been a great vehicle for university outreach. For the 2008 running of GSoC, the Eclipse Foundation received student 127 applications from almost as many institutions. Most of the students submitting proposals were currently enrolled in undergraduate programmes, but many where pursuing graduate-level...

Glassfish v3 Prelude was launched today. Check out the Aquarium site for all the links and details. Three things that I think are great to see: The Glassfish team seems to be very committed to OSGi. The key new feature in v3 seems to be the fact they support OSGi...

The 451 Group has published a new report titled ‘ Open Source is Not a Business Model’. It is one of the best surveys and analysis that detail how software companies have integrated open source into their product strategies. The survey analyzes the approaches of over 100 different ISVs ranging...

The month of November is Eclipse Demo Camp Season. We are running Demo Camps in 30 cities around the world. Last week, we had a great start in Karlsruhe Germany which was sold out with 75 people attending. Why not see if there is a Demo Camp near you and...

The EclipseCon 2009 submission system is now open and ready for your talk proposals. Be sure to get your talk proposal in before the November 24th deadline. Now… November 24th sounds like a long way off, but it’ll be here … Continue reading →